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Ubuntu’s Juju wins Cloud Awards ‘Best Cloud Automation Solution’

We’re thrilled to announce that, out of 200 total entries, our service orchestration tool, Juju, has been named the 2013-2014 Cloud Awards winner for Best...

Instant eCommerce

Christmas shopping habbits have changed recently. Most people just buy gifts online to avoid endless queues. A lot of small and medium companies are looking...

Sheets transition

We’ve recently been exploring how the share transitions should work when you’re previewing a photo in gallery mode. Our main goal is that there is a...

Ubuntu scores highest in UK Gov security assessment

UK government security arm CESG has published a report of its assessment on the security of all ‘End User Device’ operating systems. Its assessment compared...

New year, new website: the new canonical.com

We’ve been talking about it for a while and we are now happy to reveal Canonical’s brand new website. The brief We thought that it was more than appropriate...

Ubuntu: Web OS of the year…. ….for the 3rd year in a row

It is with great pride that we saw Ubuntu winning W3tech’s Operating System of the year award. For those of us that work on Ubuntu, increased adoption is one...

2013: a year of innovation, interoperability and convergence

Following our post about the next decade of innovation, we thought now would be a good time to look back at 2013, a year that saw huge strides toward two of...

New year links

Happy new year! Here are a couple of links that have been flying around the London office since we returned. The Verge did a recap of their most influential...


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Messaging interaction

We’ve currently been working on user interaction for sending and deleting multiple SMSs and we thought it would be nice to show you where we’re going with it....

Making the world more secure, instantly

Nobody likes to remember lots of different passwords. This is why most enterprises have implemented single sign-on (SSO) solutions. You just sign in one time...

Latest from the web team — December 2013

This month we’ve been working hard trying to wrap up as much as we can before the holidays and planning for 2014. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on:...

Stakeholder interviews as a research method

I’d like to share my experience working on the project that has been my main focus over the past months: the redesign of canonical.com. Research methods As I...

The new Ubuntu icons

During last month’s vUDS we showcased the latest design explorations for the new Ubuntu icon theme. Here is a summary of what we presented. Our objectives...

Ubuntu Desktop: a proven, leading-edge, low-cost OS perfect for education

Ubuntu is becoming more and more popular in the education sector globally. Every day millions of students conduct research, produce assignments, correspond...

Juju: a robust cloud strategy built on choice

Ubuntu is the reference platform for scale out computing.  Some manifestations of scale out computing include: edge of network workloads, dev/test...

Ubuntu and HP: a successful team in the education sector

Ubuntu and Hewlett-Packard have shipped over one and a half million laptops directly into education. These were bought by both individuals, and institutions....


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